Open Philanthropy
Formation | June 2017 |
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Founders | |
Location |
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Area served | Global |
Methods | Grants, funding, research |
Chief Executive Officer | Alexander Berger |
President | Cari Tuna |
Website | www |
Formerly called | Open Philanthropy Project |
Open Philanthropy is a research and grantmaking foundation that makes grants based on the doctrine of effective altruism. It was founded as a partnership between GiveWell and Good Ventures. Its current chief executive officer is Alexander Berger, and its main funders are Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz. Dustin says that their wealth, worth $11 billion, is "pooled up around us right now, but it belongs to the world. We intend not to have much when we die."[1][2]
History
Operations
Open Philanthropy's grantmaking is based on the principles of
Focus areas
Open Philanthropy has four categories of focus areas: global health and development, US policy, global catastrophic risks, and science.[1][2][5][14] The organization also invests in animal welfare.[15]
Global health and development
Open Philanthropy's investments in
Grants include:
- $17.5 million to Target Malaria, for gene-drive technology to control malaria-carrying mosquitoes[15]
- Over $47 million to GiveDirectly,[12] partially for research to compare the effectiveness of giving money with more traditional developmental aid,[10] and including at least $16 million to be given directly to extremely poor people in Kenya and Uganda[20]
- $1 million to Population Services International for work on drug resistance to antimalarial medication[16]
- Nearly $30 million to the Against Malaria Foundation[12]
US policy
Open Philanthropy ranks US policy issues based on how effectively they predict their funding might be able to move the issue forward.[5][10] Past issues have included criminal justice reform and macroeconomic stabilization policy.[10] For criminal justice reform, the organization calculates that "a year in prison is half as good as one on the outside"[5] and notes that "the United States incarcerates a larger percentage than almost any other country in the world at great fiscal cost and it has highest rate of criminal homicides in the developed world".[1] For macroeconomic stabilization policy, the organization expects that the value of preventing recessions will be so many times higher than the cost of effective advocacy work that it is willing to invest in it despite success being "highly uncertain".[5] Open Philanthropy has also made grants to help advance marriage equality.[16][17]
Grants include:
- $335,000 to the Full Employment Project at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities[5]
- $100,000 to the Center for Popular Democracy’s Fed Up campaign[5]
- $6.3 million to the Accountable Justice Action Fund[21]
- $50 million to Just Impact Advisors, to advise philanthropists and make grants related to criminal justice[22]
- $3 million to the Pew Charitable Trusts' Public Safety Performance Project, to “reduce incarceration and correctional spending while maintaining or improving public safety and concentrating prison beds on high level offenders" at the state level[5]
- $500,000 to California
- $2.4 million to the
Moskovitz and Tuna have also given tens of millions of dollars to political campaigns and parties as individuals.[28][29][30][31][14] Of this giving, Dustin states, "This decision was not easy, particularly because we have reservations about anyone using large amounts of money to influence elections. That said, we believe in trying to do as much good as we can, which in this case means using the tools available to us (as they are also available to the opposition)."[14]
Global catastrophic risks
Under their longtermism portfolio, Open Philanthropy supports organizations aimed at tackling global catastrophic risks.[32][33] This category includes over $200 million given for biosecurity and pandemic preparedness,[34] and over $300 million for potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.[35] Open Philanthropy has also invested in mitigating asteroid collision risk.[2] The organization has been criticized for its narrow focus on risks that might "kill enough people to threaten civilization as we know it".[5] Some have claimed that by "flooding" money into biosecurity, Open Philanthropy is "absorbing much of the field’s experienced research capacity, focusing the attention of experts on this narrow, extremely unlikely, aspect of biosecurity risk".[36]
Grants include:
- $17.5 million to Sherlock Biosciences, for viral diagnostic tools.[37]
- About $38 million to the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security[38]
- $11.3 million to the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design to develop a universal flu vaccine[38][39][37]
- About $23 million for the purchase of Wytham Abbey as a conference venue for Effective Altruism-related meetings[40][41]
Science
Open Philanthropy named eleven areas in science "that it considers neglected by other funders", "including
Animal welfare
Holden Karnofsky has claimed that Open Philanthropy "is the largest funder in the world of farm animal welfare", including investing in alternative proteins and animal welfare advocacy.
References
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- ^ a b "Wringing the Most Good Out of a Facebook Fortune". The Chronicle of Philanthropy. December 1, 2015. Archived from the original on February 6, 2022. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
- ^ a b Carpenter, Scott (October 19, 2021). "Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz builds a second fortune". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on February 6, 2022. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
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- ^ Moses, Sue-Lynn (August 20, 2014). "Here's What Philanthropy Looks Like When Millennials From Tech and Finance Get Together". Inside Philanthropy. Archived from the original on August 19, 2019. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
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- ^ "Largest foundations in Silicon Valley". Silicon Valley Business Journal. Archived from the original on November 11, 2021. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
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- ^ "About us". Open Philanthropy. 2023. Retrieved April 24, 2024.
- ^ a b c Goel, Vindu (November 4, 2016). "Philanthropy in Silicon Valley: Big Bets on Big Ideas - The New York Times". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 6, 2022. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
- ^ "Our Progress in 2023 and Plans For 2024". Open Philanthropy. Retrieved April 24, 2024.
- ^ a b c "Clinton campaign and Dems get $20M from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz". TechCrunch. September 9, 2016. Archived from the original on September 10, 2022. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g Callaway, Ewen (December 20, 2017). "Facebook billionaire pours funds into high-risk research". Nature. Archived from the original on September 11, 2019. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
- ^ a b c "Dustin Moskovitz And Cari Tuna Launch Site For Their Philanthropic Foundation, Good Ventures | TechCrunch". March 12, 2013. Archived from the original on February 6, 2022. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
- ^ a b "Dustin Moskovitz". Forbes. Archived from the original on February 6, 2017. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
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- ^ December 2021, Stephanie Beasley // 02 (December 2, 2021). "GiveWell's move to delay $110M reopens debate on giving now vs. later". Devex. Archived from the original on September 10, 2022. Retrieved February 7, 2022.
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